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“THERE WILL BE FAMINES, PESTILENCES, AND EARTHQUAKES IN VARIOUS PLACES”

Jesus answer to his disciples question, as to what would be the signs of his Second Coming to earth, included the quote above in Matthew 24:7.

Below, I have listed just a few of the current so called natural disasters that are swamping this planet like never before in their frequency and intensity. They will bring either worship and awe, or fear and dread.

“Oh, fear the Lord, you His saints! There is no want to those who fear Him.” Psalm 34:9

Church are you prepared for His Second Coming, are you listening to God, what is He calling you to do now? One thing is for certain, He is calling us to fulfil the great commission, to make disciples.

Drought in Argentina and Uruguay, most expensive weather disaster of 2018

After a severe lack of rainfall during the summer of 2017/18, parts of Argentina and Uruguay are now suffering their worst drought in decades and the most expensive weather-related disaster on the planet so far this year. This is also the most expensive disaster in the history of both Argentina and Uruguay.

According to insurance broker Aon Benfield, total losses are near $3.9 billion, making the drought the most expensive weather-related disaster on the planet so far in 2018, and the most expensive disaster in the history of both Argentina and Uruguay.

Ethiopia is facing a killer drought.

On Thursday, the Ethiopian government increased its count of the number of people requiring emergency food aid from 5.6 million to 7.7 million, a move that aid agencies say was long overdue. The figure is expected to rise further as southeast Ethiopia confronts another fierce drought.

But with food crises erupting across the continent and the government’s budget strained by last year’s drought, the money isn’t there to fight it. There could eventually be as many people in Ethiopia needing emergency food assistance as in Somalia and South Sudan combined.

Kerala hit by worst floods in almost 100 years, facing worst in history, India

8 of Kerala’s 14 districts are on high alert as the death toll reached 37, officials said August 11. They described the floods as the worst in almost 100 years. However, they might soon become the worst in history. Hundreds of homes have been destroyed and more than 31 000 people forced to evacuate, according to the Kerala State Disaster Management Authority’s (KSDMA) control room in state capital Thiruvananthapuram. The army has been called in to help with rescue efforts. One government official told Reuters that crops across 26 824 ha (66 283 acres), worth more than $67 million USD, have been destroyed since the rains started on May 29.

Severe flash flood hits Ankara, described as disaster like never before, Turkey

Heavy rainfall caused severe flash floods in Turkey’s capital Ankara on Saturday, May 5, 2018. More than 160 vehicles were swept away and at least 4 people injured. “It was a disaster like never before,” Ankara’s Mayor said.

Fast-moving floodwaters swept away around 164 vehicles and numerous large trash cans in Ankara’s Mamak district, after rain that was expected to last three hours had fallen intensely in just 9 minutes. Dozens of homes and businesses were severely damaged, officials said.

Activity at Kilauea unprecedented in the past 200 years, Hawaii

The current eruption at Kilauea is unprecedented in scope and size in the past 200 years, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory deputy scientist-in-charge Steve Brantley said Tuesday, July 16, 2018.

“What we are observing now is unprecedented in the past 200 years in terms of size and scale, but not in terms of process,” Brantley said. “This has occurred before, particularly during the 19thcentury when there were multiple collapses of the summit area and eruptions down in the East Rift Zone. At least one large in 1840.”

“This is also the largest sequence of collapse events that we’ve observed in the past 200 years,” he said.

Severe drought affecting 40% of Inner Mongolia, China

A persistent drought is affecting as much as 40% of China’s remote northwestern region of Inner Mongolia, causing over US$91 million in direct economic losses.

The regional weather bureau said Inner Mongolia has seen 25% less rainfall since mid-June and is around 1 °C (1.8 °F) higher in temperature than during the same period in previous years.

By June 27, 2018, nearly 37 million hectares (91 million acres) of grassland and over 35 million livestock had been affected, according to data provided by the regional department of agriculture and animal husbandry.

An estimated 93 tons of dead fish washed up on Sakhalin Island in Russia, north of Japan last week.

“The death scale of the Pacific herring in Piltun Bay is enormous,” a spokesman for the regional NGO Ecological Watch of Sakhalin said.

“The death of such an amount of uneven-aged fish of the same species is an abnormal event, and it may be a question of the destruction of a large part of the population of the herring of the bay.” The event was first reported on June 12:

A national disaster was declared in Northern California on August 4, 2018

The Mendocino Complex Fire is the largest recorded fire complex in California history.